All posts tagged "Solitary Confinement"

Ireland has refused to extradite alleged terrorist recruiter Ali Charaf Damache to the United States over fear that he may receive inhumane treatment if he ends up in Colorado's supermax prison. Damache has been accused of using online chat rooms to lure American women into terrorist cells operating in the U.S. and Europe.

A private prison company allegedly put an elderly woman in solitary confinement and prevented her from taking her medication, according to a lawsuit filed last month.

The American Civil Liberties Union is calling on the U.S. attorney general to end the practice of holding juveniles in solitary confinement in federal prisons.

By Christie Thompson, ProPublica

Hundreds of inmates across the state enter second month of protest against 'inhumane' solitary confinement units